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LogicHub Inc. is emerging from stealth to join the crowded cybersecurity market today with $8.4 million in fresh funding and a novel approach to machine-aided security that puts humans first. The company, which was founded by two former Arcsight Inc. executives, says that …
Mavenlink bulks up project management suite for professional services firms
If the term “project management software” sends you into a coma, consider this: Mavenlink Inc. has raised $84 million, counts hundreds of thousands of paying customers in more than 100 countries, and it’s targeting a professional service market that will collectively bring in …
Government app builder CSDC lands $30M investment
BuildGroup Management LLC, a venture capital firm led by former Rackspace Inc. Chief Executive Lanham Napier (pictured), has invested $30 million in Toronto’s CSDC Systems Inc., a 27-year-old Mississauga, Ontario-based developer of applications for government. The investment will fund customer growth, product …
Datto scoops up Open Mesh to expand network appliance line
Cloud business continuity, backup and recovery firm Datto Inc. has acquired Open Mesh Inc., a maker of plug-and-play wireless mesh networks that organizations can use to build Wi-Fi networks in spread-out premises such as hotels and apartment buildings. Datto will integrate the acquired …
The key to success in cloud computing, says survey: Plan ahead
A new survey by cloud service management firm CloudHealth Technologies Inc. finds that companies that plan their journey to the cloud and appoint a steward to oversee it enjoy more than twice the revenue growth of those that don’t. That translates into …
Microsoft results top estimates as cloud revenues surge 95 percent
Microsoft Corp. beat revenue and profit estimates in its fiscal second quarter, buoyed by impressive growth in its Azure cloud computing business and strong gains in the cloud-based Office 365 productivity suite. Revenues of $26.1 billion eclipsed analyst consensus estimates of $25.3 billion …
IBM to support Google-developed TensorFlow machine learning library
The TensorFlow machine learning framework that Google Inc. released under an Apache open-source license in late 2015 just gained an important endorsement: IBM Corp. said today that it will support TensorFlow 0.12 on its PowerAI machine learning platform. IBM introduced PowerAI late last …
It’s another earnings blowout for ServiceNow
Red-hot information technology service management provider ServiceNow Inc. beat every metric that matters today as it announced stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter results. Highlighting the quarter at the Santa Clara, California-based company were a 41 percent jump in subscription revenues and 35 percent growth in total revenues. Full-year …
SAP beats estimates on cloud strength, raises outlook through 2020
Continuing to escape the malaise that has hit much of the legacy information technology industry, application software giant SAP SE posted healthy fourth-quarter earnings on a 40 percent jump in bookings for its cloud computing offerings and a 47 percent surge in …
Kinetica rolls machine learning libraries into its GPU-powered database
In-memory database maker Kinetica Db Inc. today is adding in-database analytics via user-defined functions to its namesake product, enabling machine learning and artificial intelligence libraries such as TensorFlow, BiDMach, Caffe and Torch to run directly inside the database, rather than requiring a time-consuming process …